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Travel Grants Program

2007-08 Travel Grants
2006-07 Travel Grants

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2007-08 Travel Grants

The Travel Grant Program was created to increase involvement in Collaboration activities by faculty and staff from Native American tribal and private historically black colleges and universities by providing financial assistance for registrations and travel expenses. Since funding for this program is provided through a grant from the Bush Foundation, eligibility is limited to Collaboration member campuses with a history of Bush Foundation funding.

 Two types of grants are available:

• Presenter Grants for individuals whose session proposals are accepted for a conference program (maximum of $900 for one presenter or $1,800 per presenter team)
• Participant Grants for groups of two or more faculty, staff, or administrators attending a conference as regular participants (maximum of $1,800 per conference). Grants may cover conference and preconference registrations (including lunches, continental breakfast, reception, breaks, and all programming and session materials), air/ground transportation (no rental cars), hotel rooms, and per diem. All requests should be coordinated through the campus faculty development coordinator.

An application for a Presenter’s Travel Grant will be considered only after a session proposal has been accepted by The Collaboration.

Please note that a campus match of at least 15% is required for all grants. In reviewing requests, priority will be given to 1) presenters, 2) campuses that have not received a Travel Grant in the past year, and 3) participants who have not been funded previously. 

Important Dates

Application Deadline		Travel Funds Released
January 11, 2008	Early Consideration for February Conference	January 31, 2008
January 25, 2008	Remaining Funds for February Conference	Approximately March 28, 2008 (following review of final reports)

Individuals and groups wishing to apply for a Travel Grant should read the Guidelines and Instructions and complete the two-page application form in consultation with the campus faculty development coordinator. Grant recipients must also complete and submit a conference registration form by the appropriate Early Bird deadline: January 24, 2008. Registration materials are available through the campus faculty development coordinator or on our conferences pages.

Please complete a separate form for presenters and non-presenting participants for each conference attending. In other words, if your institution is applying to send presenters as well as other participants to a conference, your institution will need to complete two applications. Please make extra copies of the two-page application form as needed.

In conjunction with their faculty development coordinators, Travel Grant recipients will be expected to submit a final report within three weeks of the conference, including receipts for all airfare, ground transportation, and hotel expenses.  If applicable, the report should include a check from the recipient institution payable to The Collaboration for any unspent grant monies. Travel Grants will not be made to institutions that have not filed a previous final report or returned remaining funds. 

For assistance, call The Collaboration at (651) 646-6166 or email us.

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2006-07 Travel Grants

The Collaboration awarded a total of $21,293 in Travel Grant funding during 2006-07 to support 41 faculty and staff from 13 Collaboration member institutions to attend our November and February conferences. Institutions receiving grants for these events are:

• Blackfeet Community College
• Cankdeska Cikana Community College
• Claflin University
• College of Menominee Nation
• Fort Berthold Community College
• Fort Peck Community College
• Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College
• Oglala Lakota College
• Rust College
• Sinte Gleska University
• Sitting Bull College
• Turtle Mountain Community College
• Xavier University of Louisiana

We are grateful to the Bush Foundation of St. Paul, Minnesota, for providing funds to The Collaboration to support this program.

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